What, no role Jim "Jones" McDermott? Ask him to reprise his Kool-Aid slurping in Basra. Had the locals in stitches. Or he could re-enact his resignation from the Ethics Committee for passing on an illegally taped telephone conversation of congressional Republican leaders. Or he could give his speech in favor of HillaryCare, no make that "single-payer" healthcare.

He also draws laughs wherever he goes. Don't leave Jim "Jones" McDermott out of your extravaganza, you'll regret it.;^)

Scott

Great reporting as usual, but how could you not mention that the event's director is multiple Oscar-nominee Robert Altman? See the Reuters dispatch, "Bonior, Babs bring it on for Baghdad" (entertainment wire, 9/29/02).

Gene Mierzejewski

Is anyone old enough to remember the broadcasts of our POWs from Hanoi? Under duress, they "confessed" that they had committed war crimes. A few of them were able to foil the captors by slipping in seemingly innocuous remarks, thereby exposing the scripted "confessions". Are we doing all we can to free Bonior and McDermott from their captors?

Help! I live in Jim McDermott's district and need a Representative who's interested in MY welfare, not that of a Stalinist tyrant. Any alternative candidate with a conscience eagerly voted for.

Insufficiently, you can move here. My congressman is, um, let's see...Oh. It's Mike Thompson. Never mind.
(Things are tough all over)

I have a hard time believing any of this reporting. Congressperson Bonior is an honorable person, and he wouldn't do anything to be seen as in any way helping or promoting or defending a dictator who has killed an entire village with poison gas. (Especially since there are photographs of the dead villagers floating around.) Congressperson McDermott I've never heard of. I'd be surprised if he even exists. This is another case of amateur journalist wannabees getting everything all wrong. After seeing congressperson Bonior defend our late president Clinton I would want him in my foxhole anytime. Even if he is gay.

Quick, Mr. President! Start the bombing now before they leave.

caroline trace thinks it's all a big conspiracy to take down her hero, Bonior. Yes, it's all a conspiracy. They even made up McDermott. He's just an automoton ploy to discredit her hero, Bonior.

And it's our "former" president Clinton, not "late." He isn't dead.

This is terribly blasphemous. Why, I JUST SAW the Hon. Mr. Bonior on TV from Baghdad, saying that everyone is invited to visit and to go anywhere they like in Iraq. It's a wonderful thing that they have done, to open up the entire country for all to come and see how wonderful it is. He didn't mention the 14 presidential palaces, but come on, I'm sure nobody would put a manufacturing facility into a palace. It's a palace after all!

addison wrote:
"And it's our "former" president Clinton, not "late." He isn't dead."

Too bad. I could use the federal holiday we'll get when he goes to the Big Whorehouse in the Sky.

Addison...

I was impersonating, probably not very well, a sort of NPR soccer mom.

Oh. Gotta throw a smiley face in there at end or something or I think you're being serious...or maybe some <sarcasm>  </sarcasm> things.

But, but, but -- Bonior can't have said that! He handed out pine saplings as part of his Congressional campaigns!

This is getting preposterous! You all know that Allan Colmes has said that McDermott and Bonior have the right to say anything they should want to say in Baghdad! Yeah like Free Speech is the question here. However the congressmen lost a good photo op, they could have danced or urinated on that mosaic of George 41 that Saddam has installed for the public to trod over! Now that would have really rallyed the libs!

David "Baghdad" Bonior is a traitor to the United States. His legacy is now one of disgrace and infamy. And while his colleagues in Iraq must be delighted, Bonior's constituents should be embarrassed and outraged at his conduct. Just who is he representing anyway?